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To bake or not to bake? That was the question posed by a same-gender wedding cake example in California.

Last year, Cathy Miller, the owner of Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, refused to cook a bridal cake for a lesbian couple. The couple, wanting to be treated as human being and all, took issue with that. They took Miller to court .

That is : Her Christian faith protected her from having to cook a cake for an LGBTQ couple. Had the cake already been prepared and on display to the public, the judge noted, Miller would have had to sell them the cake.

Check out the sketch( story continues below ):

In the sketch, Kimmel, playing a server, rules out menu items for guests at his table based on the various the positions of those preparing the food.

“Does anyone have any food allergies? Any dietary regulations? ” Kimmel asks, as the guests shake their heads. “Are any of you gay? “

“I’m gay, ” one woman answers.

“OK. You won’t be enjoying any of our signature salads tonight, ” Kimmel says, to giggle. “Our salad chef today is Tony, and he believes homosexuality is a sin, so he won’t be creating any of our salads for you.”

From a legal perspective, there’s an important difference between simply selling a cake to the general public and creating one for a specific wedding event, the magistrate argued.

But isn’t that a murky distinction? What’s stopping Tony from deeming his salad a work of art carry his support for a lesbian guest at the restaurant?

If Tony’s salad had been pre-made, however, that’d apparently suffice .

“I don’t want day-old salad, ” the guest protests.

To which Kimmel retorts, “Well, aren’t you a picky lesbian.”

That’s not the end of it, though. A Jewish guest is denied lasagna because the cook preparing it is antisemitic. Another guest can’t order steak because a chef is Hindu.

When a man orders a salad, intending to give it to the lesbian couple and circumvent the discriminatory regulation, Kimmel’s character shuts him down. “Our owner Patricia is a Wiccan priestess, ” he explains, “and she won’t allow men to order for women. She says it perpetuates the patriarchy.”

When can one person’s religious liberties veer off into blatant discrimination? As Kimmel’s sketch suggests, fairly darn quickly.